Witness History
A podcast by BBC World Service
1512 Episodio
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The 'graveyard' for communist statues
Pubblicato: 29/06/2023 -
Sampoong department store disaster
Pubblicato: 28/06/2023 -
First reports of Ebola
Pubblicato: 27/06/2023 -
JFK’s Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
Pubblicato: 26/06/2023 -
My dad played golf on the moon
Pubblicato: 23/06/2023 -
The Empire Windrush arrives
Pubblicato: 22/06/2023 -
Anti-gay police raid at Tasty nightclub
Pubblicato: 21/06/2023 -
The Somali pilot ordered to bomb his own country
Pubblicato: 20/06/2023 -
Uprising in East Germany
Pubblicato: 19/06/2023 -
Ming Smith makes history at MoMA
Pubblicato: 16/06/2023 -
Sir Don McCullin’s photo of a US marine
Pubblicato: 15/06/2023 -
Malick Sidibé: Mali’s star photographer
Pubblicato: 14/06/2023 -
A Great Day in Harlem: The story behind the iconic jazz photo
Pubblicato: 13/06/2023 -
Lee Miller in Hitler's bath
Pubblicato: 12/06/2023 -
1955 Le Mans disaster
Pubblicato: 09/06/2023 -
Last communist march before Hitler
Pubblicato: 08/06/2023 -
Facial reconstruction: From mummy to murder
Pubblicato: 06/06/2023 -
Inuit children taken from families
Pubblicato: 05/06/2023 -
The first Indian woman to conquer Everest
Pubblicato: 02/06/2023 -
Tragedy on Everest
Pubblicato: 01/06/2023
Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from the death of Adolf Hitler, the first spacewalk and the making of the movie Jaws, to celebrity tortoise Lonesome George, the Kobe earthquake and the invention of superglue. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: Eva Peron – Argentina’s Evita; President Ronald Reagan and his famous ‘tear down this wall’ speech; Thomas Keneally on why he wrote Schindler’s List; and Jacques Derrida, France’s ‘rock star’ philosopher. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the civil rights swimming protest, the disastrous D-Day rehearsal, and the death of one of the world’s oldest languages.